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At this point, Diva, I'd be doing good to get baloney to put on shiners! Christmas and 5 birthdays in under a month - now I know why Jingle Bells is a Christmas song....by the time it's all over for us, the only kind of money we have is the kind that jingles, no folding stuff!
 
Yes it was before my ice cream addiction. I'm thinking about 1982 because Dr. listened to a lot of kvetching & crying till he decided I was really depressed. What, in a year he realized I wasn't kidding?

I always liked ice cream- had my son in 1985 and no time to think about it. 2003 I did 8 charity walks and bang, one store had Edy's ice cream special $ 1.88 per real HALF Gal. 2 limit. My father and I went around buying 4 (different flavors) at each of 3 other stores in the chain - no joke.

My father loved ice cream but was slow. I was fast. I ate through most of the half gals, before he got to taste them. After that I was hooked for life. I thought after doing charity walks from 5 to 10 K I needed rewards and ice cream was what I wanted.

I guess you could say charity walks and a grocery chain were responsible for my ice cream addiction. I am down pretty much to a pint( from 16.oz to 14 oz.-ice cream new math) and high prices. Just can't afford much anymore. Is it too late to sue them?
 
Tee hee DMC we can be nuts together :p

Too funny Blooie!

Well, that doctors visit could have gone better … nice locum doctor because the usual guy is on holidays. Anyways, we say our hello’s, I mention the repeat script I need and then I start in to my “I do not know if there is anything you can do to help me but seen as I am here….” speil, get about half way through and burst in to tears! :rolleyes:

I have had tinnitus since my heart scare and it gets worse when I am stressed but I was thinking along the lines that the tinnitus was the reason I was not coping with everything and if we get that fixed up, I might cope better. She, however, is thinking along the lines that the tinnitus is a side effect of the stress.

I usually get my BP taken at each visit and keep a record but she did not want to take it today because she thought that it would be high and that that would stress me even more :rolleyes:

So, here I am, feeling a bit like a mental case, waiting to hear from the Mental Health Person she has recommended I speak to.

Let me clarify here .. she does not think I am mental :p just that my mental health is not good at present and we need to fix that. So, the plan is to talk to this guy and as we can not change the current situation, see if there is something I can do to better cope with it and alleviate some stress.

I have a couple of suggestions but not sure they are appropriate :p :lau
 
Does a margarita figure into the picture there, Teila? :drool

Nothing wrong with that consult and the chance of getting a little help over the hump and learning some stress relieving skills....if it wasn't for Happy Cappys that were prescribed to me and a sympathetic but no-nonsense professional, I don't know how I could have coped with losing Linda. I didn't want to admit that it was all too much for me - the endless weeks of waiting, going back there and seeing her rally, then more weeks of waiting by the phone, hospice, another trip, and then losing her. To top it all off, a couple of days after her service we had to pack up and hit a 3 day Masonic function. I just put on my Lee Press-on smile and got on with it, then came home and tried to get back to 'normal'. Yeah, that wasn't happening, or at least it wasn't happening fast enough for me. An understanding doctor, a supportive family, a month's worth of Happy Cappys and life started looking better.

I'm so glad that you talked to her. And this is going to sound really dumb, but in all honesty there's nothing like having a doctor reassuring you that you are not "mental", but that you are fragile right now and need a little assistance. The worst part of feeling like you're slipping into crazy is thinking that therefore you must BE crazy, and you're all alone in your slide down. It's overwhelming and scary as all get out!

We've got you, Teila! I promise! :love:hugs
 
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Tee hee DMC we can be nuts together :p

Too funny Blooie!

Well, that doctors visit could have gone better … nice locum doctor because the usual guy is on holidays. Anyways, we say our hello’s, I mention the repeat script I need and then I start in to my “I do not know if there is anything you can do to help me but seen as I am here….” speil, get about half way through and burst in to tears! :rolleyes:

I have had tinnitus since my heart scare and it gets worse when I am stressed but I was thinking along the lines that the tinnitus was the reason I was not coping with everything and if we get that fixed up, I might cope better. She, however, is thinking along the lines that the tinnitus is a side effect of the stress.

I usually get my BP taken at each visit and keep a record but she did not want to take it today because she thought that it would be high and that that would stress me even more :rolleyes:

So, here I am, feeling a bit like a mental case, waiting to hear from the Mental Health Person she has recommended I speak to.

Let me clarify here .. she does not think I am mental :p just that my mental health is not good at present and we need to fix that. So, the plan is to talk to this guy and as we can not change the current situation, see if there is something I can do to better cope with it and alleviate some stress.

I have a couple of suggestions but not sure they are appropriate :p :lau
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:hugs Medications can really help. Only reason i am here today.
 
LOL Blooie I was thinking more along the lines of removing the stressor! :p

But, I wouldn’t say no to a Margarita either ;)

Thank you so much! I never did get to give you a big hug as I was AWOL when you lost Linda so :hugs :hugs :hugs

As always, you know the right thing to say and say it so well. I do not think I am crazy and know that I am just trying to deal with a not so ideal situation. Usually, I cope pretty well with stress but I think this last basket load has pushed the threshold too far!

I am going to try and steer clear of medication as I am not keen on that idea. Basically, because until we moved here I was fine. Hopefully, this guy can teach me some stress relieving skills as you mention.
 
The reason we decided on medication for me was that I was so overtired and stressed by that point that I couldn’t absorb the measures the doctor was trying to teach me, Teila. In with all that, I was also taking care of Kendra and then had Katie when they took Kendra to Denver. Until I was more relaxed, nothing they were going to do for me was going to work anyway. I got one month’s worth, but within a couple of weeks I was calmed enough to address what was going on, break it down, and then deal with it. So a prescription of relatively short duration can be helpful if you and your doctor decide that it’s indicated. And I wouldn’t eliminate part of my stressors either - you’ve seen Kendra’s smile! :love It’s okay to get tired and fed up, even with her from time to time! Oh, and I’m sure the cruise helped, too! :lau
 

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